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Learning Node.js Development
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Learning Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing yargs

Before we can get started doing any encoding, we have to get the address from the user, and before we can set up yargs we have to install it. In the Terminal, we'll run the npm install command, the module name is yargs, and we'll look for version 10.1.1, which is the latest version at the time of writing. We'll use the save flag to run this installation, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now the save flag is great because as you remember. It updates the package.json file and that's exactly what we want. This means that we can get rid of the node modules folder which takes up a ton of space, but we can always regenerate ...

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